zooty

Adjective

zooty (comparative more zooty, superlative most zooty)

1. (dated, informal) Stylish, flashy, snappy.
   • Only the silver dollar hawkers have kept up their professional spirits. They hang around street corners, clinking gleaming stacks of coins, their orthodox blue Chinese gowns topped by broad-brimmed brown fedoras that give them, from the neck up, that zooty air usually associated with Broadway...1949 April 18, Dwight Martin, “City of Defeat”, in Time, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013
   • A man of 75 may be feeling pretty frisky. Frisky enough that he starts chasing the girls of 25. He divorces his wife, buys a set of “zooty threads” as he calls them, and a zippy convertible, and has himself a big time in Las Vegas.1988 Martin A. Janis, The Joys of Aging, Dallas: Word Publishing, p. 122